Walkabout (1971)
July 1, 1971
Adventure, Drama
1h 35m
A boy and girl face the challenge of the world's last frontier.
Under the pretense of having a picnic, a geologist takes his teenage daughter and 6-year-old son into the Australian outback and attempts to shoot them. When he fails, he turns the gun on himself, and the two city-bred children must contend with harsh wilderness alone. They are saved by a chance encounter with an Aboriginal boy who shows them how to survive, and in the process underscores the disharmony between nature and modern life.
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Cast & Crew
- Director
- Nicolas Roeg
- Girl Jenny Agutter
- White Boy Luc Roeg
- Black Boy David Gulpilil
- Man John Meillon
- German Scientist Noeline Brown
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Keywords
- australia
- suicide
- sibling relationship
- based on novel or book
- hunter
- picnic
- wilderness
- camel
- tribe
- coming of age
- flashback
- survival
- teenage girl
- death
- outback
- geologist
- rite of passage
- australian aboriginal